Editing Clark Gable (section)

=== 1958–1961: Paramount and ''The Misfits'' ===
Next, he paired with [[Doris Day]] in ''[[Teacher's Pet (1958 film)|Teacher's Pet]]'' (1958), shot in black and white at Paramount. He did ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep (1958 film)|Run Silent, Run Deep]]'' (also 1958), with co-star and producer [[Burt Lancaster]], which featured his first on-screen death since 1937, and which garnered good reviews. Gable started to receive television offers, but rejected them outright. At 57, Gable finally acknowledged, "Now it's time I acted my age".<ref name="harris" />{{Rp|361}} His contracts began including a clause that his filming and work days ended at 5 p.m.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-et-loren4-story.html|title=Series takes Loren back to where it all started|date=June 4, 2008|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref>

His next two films were light comedies for Paramount: ''[[But Not for Me (1959 film)|But Not for Me]]'' (1959) with [[Carroll Baker]], and ''[[It Started in Naples]]'' (1960) with [[Sophia Loren]]. ''Naples'' was written and directed by [[Melville Shavelson]] and it mainly showed the beauty of Loren and the Italian island [[Capri]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/03/archives/screen-backdrop-for-sophia-lorenappears-with-gable-in-it-started-in.html|title=Screen: Backdrop for Sophia Loren:Appears With Gable in 'It Started in Naples' Kept in Foreground by Cameras and Script|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=September 3, 1960|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 3, 2019|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was a box-office success and was nominated for an Academy Award for art direction<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1959/film/reviews/it-started-in-naples-1200419688/|title=It Started in Naples|date=January 1, 1960|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref> and two Golden Globes, one for picture and Loren for actress in a leading role.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/it-started-naples|title=It Started in Naples|website=www.goldenglobes.com|language=en|access-date=November 7, 2019}}</ref> Filmed mostly on location in Italy, it was Gable's last film released in color. While there Gable's weight had increased to {{convert|230|lbs}}, something he credited to pasta, and he started on a crash diet to achieve a goal weight of 195, along with briefly quitting drinking and smoking, to pass a required physical for his next movie.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ux2dz6PbRKQC&q=clark+gable+production+company&pg=PA236|title=Clark Gable: Tormented Star|last=Bret|first=David|date=December 14, 2007|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-7867-2093-4}}</ref>

On February 8, 1960, Gable received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for his work in motion pictures, located at 1608 [[Vine Street]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/clark-gable|title=Clark Gable {{!}} Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=www.walkoffame.com|access-date=August 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/clark-gable/|title=Clark Gable – Hollywood Star Walk |work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 23, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Marilyn Monroe Misfits.jpg|thumb|left|Marilyn Monroe and Gable with Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift (in the background) in ''The Misfits'' (1961)]]
Gable's last film was ''[[The Misfits (1961 film)|The Misfits]]'' (1961), with a script by [[Arthur Miller]] and directed by [[John Huston]]. Co-starring with Gable were [[Marilyn Monroe]] (in her last completed film), [[Montgomery Clift]], [[Eli Wallach]] and [[Thelma Ritter]]. Many critics regard Gable's performance to be his finest, and Gable, after seeing the rough cuts, agreed,<ref name="miller" /> although the film did not receive any Oscar nominations. Miller wrote the screenplay for his wife Monroe; it was about two aging cowboys and a pilot that go mustanging in Reno, Nevada, who all fall for a blonde. In 1961, it was a somewhat disconnected film with its antihero western themes, but it has since become a classic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-09-26-0409250253-story.html|title='The Misfits': Arthur Miller's Hollywood story|author=Michael Wilmington|website=Chicago Tribune|date=September 26, 2004 |language=en-US|access-date=November 7, 2019}}</ref>

Portraitist [[Al Hirschfeld]] created a drawing, and then a lithograph, portraying the film's stars Clift, Monroe, and Gable with screenwriter Miller, in what is suggested as a typical "on-the-set" scene during the troubled production.<ref name="The Misfits, On the Set">{{cite web|last=Hirschfeld|first=Al|title=The Misfits, On the Set|url=http://www.alhirschfeld.com/cgi-bin/cat_litho_movies?CAT=Mo#TOP1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724051508/http://www.alhirschfeld.com/cgi-bin/popup?ID=3731&CAT=A1|archive-date=July 24, 2017|publisher=Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd.|access-date=May 17, 2013}}</ref> In a 2002 documentary Eli Wallach recalled the mustang wrangling scenes Gable insisted on performing himself, "You have to pass a physical to film that" and "He was a professional going home at 5 p.m. to a pregnant wife".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-01-et-king1-story.html|title='The Misfits' Finally Gets Some Respect|date=October 1, 2002|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 15, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' found "Mr. Gable's performance as a leathery old cowboy with a realistic slant on most plain things" ironically vital, with his death before the film's release.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/02/archives/gable-and-monroe-star-in-script-by-miller.html|title=Gable and Monroe Star in Script by Miller|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=February 2, 1961|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 25, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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